In the present day, from national and international perspectives, quality is at the top of most agendas. Similarly
improving quality of education is probably the most important task facing any educational institution. ...

According to Baumel (2002), “20 percent of school age kids are poor readers and remain that
way through their lifetime”. It has been proved repeatedly that reading is a language-based skill.
Poor reading skills thus ...

Interests on access to open learning, some tangential while others significant, have surfaced as
the shared agenda of much debate in the educational community. This emergence of current
technologies possesses unimaginable ...

The role of distance education is changing drastically both at micro and macro context. Education
has no longer remained either the prerogative of institutions or even knowledge has no longer
remained under the sole ...

The primary theme of this study was to examine the perceptions of the secondary and senior
higher secondary students’ parents, regarding the social acceptability of ODL schooling as well as
conventional schooling.
Social ...

Open & Distance Learning as a strategy for reaching carers is a neglected area. Parents & carers
are typically in long term contact with children. If they can be helped to acquire needed
information and skills, we can ...

The use of modern technological tools, also known as e-technology, in open learning is
advocated on many strong grounds : wider and faster access to the learners, cost-effectiveness,
better impact due to audio-visual ...

The dramatic changes in the information and communication technologies (ICTs) over the last
few decades have had significant implications for new teaching and learning approaches. Modern
educational technologies offer ...

The Faculty of Education of the Open University of Sri Lanka has incorporated interactive
techniques such as interactive day schools and assignments to the teaching-learning process of
a teacher education programme ...

In their endeavour for “reaching the unreached” and human resource development, the
developing countries are up scaling their Open Schooling programmes; thus providing
appropriate responses to the challenges of number, ...